Good Omens, the forthcoming television series for Prime Video, will see Parks and Recreation star Nick Offerman join its cast as filming completes in South Africa.

Offerman will be taking on the role of the US Ambassador and father of the child Warlock, mistakenly believed to be the Antichrist. Nick joins leads Michael Sheen and David Tennant as production finishes shooting in locations in and around Cape Town, South Africa this month.

Good Omens signs up Parks and Recreation star Nick Offerman.

Neil Gaiman said, “There may not be anyone alive who can deadpan a line quite as well as Nick Offerman. He’s a terrific performer, and has to say a lot of things in Good Omens that are humanly impossible to deliver with a straight face. Fortunately, Nick is not entirely human. We are very lucky to have him.”

Nick Offerman added, “If you had told me when I first read Good Omens in the early 90s that I would one day visit South Africa to giggle with Neil Gaiman at laptop-screened footage of Dr. Who and David Frost dancing because I was assaying a role in the adaptation of said book, I would likely have offered to purchase some of whatever you must be smoking. But here I am, still giggling at the luck of it.”

Good Omens will launch globally on Prime Video in 2019 including in the UK – where it will also air on BBC Two at a later date.